(IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 2

[Steve Gorak]

As he waits for his companions, Gimlak addresses the giant "I appreciate your patience, my companions are curious, let us stay here but a few minutes. As we wait, would you share what you are digging for? It is surprising to see such an enterprise."

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Utharn thought for a moment. While the giant was patient and slow to anger, Gimlak could tell that he didn't really enjoy speaking to "smalls" and considered them to be his inferiors. Still, he was diplomatic and he replied, "It seems that the valley on which this steading arose once had an ancient temple. We are digging for artefacts that belonged to the cultists."

* * *

Duvrael moved into the rounded chamber behind the altar. In Kaligan's torchlight, something seemed to shift in the purplish stones, like a shadow that moved along the reflective surface. From further back, it appeared like a tentacle that reached out for the yuan-ti as he traced his finger along a smaller pattern that he could see from up close on the stone surface.

OOC: @JustinCase Duvrael must make a dc15 INT save. @Snarf Zagyg Doc & @Maxperson Kaligan will get caught up in it too if they even look at what's happening. They should make a dc12 INT save, but they can have advantage if they choose to avert their gaze. Alternately, they can give up their own advantage to give it to Duvrael, if they try to tackle or shove him aside.

 

[Maxperson]

OOC: Kaligan is examining the altar closely as this happens, so I don't feel that he would even be aware of what is happening in time to tackle Duvrael. It's also why I rolled with advantage. His gaze is already averted. Intelligence save with advantage: 1D20+4 = [19]+4 = 23 1D20+4 = [14]+4 = 18

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Doc was on high alert ... scanning the room for anything untoward that might indicate why the Sheriff seemed to summon him here. Or, at a minimum, some fine spirits to top off his flasks. He watched with some reserve as Duvrael approached the shifting reflective stones of the altar, and as the serpant-man was lost in concentration tracing something or other, saw what appeared to be an appendage of some sort reaching out. Tarnation. Wasn't 'spectin' no ambush. Guess I gotta save the snake from a snake.

Doc shot forward, shoving Duvrael out of the way.

OOC: Int Save: 1D20+2 = [12]+2 = 14 Advantage for Duvrael

 

[Tonguez]

Kahru grimaced when the steinjotenen mentioned cultist, the barbarian zealot did not like cultist and there was already too much weirdness in this party with its macabre deadman, ophidian mage and summoning of invisible eldritch horrors! Was this the news Lord Thyffon was wanting?

Kahru turned and looked back to where they had been and where the three stragglers had wandered off, and all the while Waythe was hungering for action - perhaps it was time to free the Orcs too and let Orog blood satisfy the Swords thirst…

 

[Steve Gorak]

Gimlak sees that he is pushing his luck with the giants, so he accepts the answer: "Thanks you, now let us wait for the rest of our companions"

He takes the time to inquire how the starspawn is doing telepathically "Everything ok up there? Has anyone tried to enter the doors?"

Also, using the telepathic ritual Duvrael had previously cast, he telepathically asks "Have you found anything interesting? If so, let us free the dwarves and we can return later. The Giants are growing impatient".

OOC: Using Rary's telepathic bond Duvrael cast, the question to the three is heard by all companions.

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[FitzTheRuke]

Doc shouldered Duvrael, which was enough to snap the yuan-ti out of any connection to the shadowy presence in the slate tiles. Kaligan had been looking at the altar, which itself started to shift its yellowish-waxy pattern in his torchlight. He glanced up when Duvrael was shoved, but quickly averted his eyes when he saw the shadow move across the tiles.

Looking quickly back at the altar, he watched as a ring and two large gemstones were disgorged from its swirling surface, coming to rest on top as the swirling subsided.

 

[Kobold Stew]

The Colonel is doing his best to keep the rescued dwarves together. He doesn't want them separated, and he would like to escort them from this place. Nevertheless, things seem calm. He finds he is holding his breath in his distraction (Genasi do that; they need to remember to breathe), as if waiting for some further disaster to interrupt what the group is doing.

Static electricity plays along his moustache, a presaging of what's to come.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OOC: Anyone taking their "reward" for not going insane?

 

[Tonguez]

The Colonel is doing his best to keep the rescued dwarves together. He doesn't want them separated, and he would like to escort them from this place. Nevertheless, things seem calm. He finds he is holding his breath in his distraction (Genasi do that; they need to remember to breathe), as if waiting for some further disaster to interrupt what the group is doing.

Static electricity plays along his moustache, a presaging of what's to come.

Kahru returned Waythe back to her sheath ignoring her indignant scrabbling at his mind. There were things going on with the Deadman and the Ophidian that he could not see, and he was sure he did not wish to know. Instead he turned a concerned frown towards the Colonel and the Dwarfs feeling the tense crackle in the air that caused the hair on his arms to stand on end, like an expectant storm.

Is anyone hungry? he asked, taking the Staff of the Wooded Grove from his back and gripping it firmly in his hand. The Druid called upon the staffs connection to the Sacred Grove to sprout some good berries for the assembly to share amongst themselves. It was not a feast but might suffice in settling their minds and keeping them together before they all moved on.

OOC: Use an action to conjure 10 goodberries, each goodberry restores 1 hit point and sustains a creature for one day